Respond critically to specified aspect(s) of studied written text(s), supported by evidence

The texts listed below are considered to be of literary merit and suitable for study at NCEA Level 3 and level 8 of the curriculum because they allow the students to respond critically:

3.1 Extended Texts

Text Title	Text Author	Comment
Non-Fiction
A Child Called It	Dave Pelzer
Angela’s Ashes	Frank McCourt
Desert Flower	Waris Dirie
Dibs in Search of Self	Virginia Axline
Girl Interrupted	Susanna Kaysen
If This is a Man	Primo Levi
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote
Rachel’s Tears	Mark Scotts
The Chosen	Chaim Potok
The Color of Water	James McBride
To The Is-Land	Janet Frame
Tuesdays With Morrie	Mitch Albom
Novels
A Clockwork Orange	Antony Burgess
A Dangerous Vine	Barbara Ewing
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway
A Gathering of Old Men	Ernest Gaines
A Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
A Map of the World	Jane Hamilton
A Room With A View	E M Forster
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner
Atonement	Ian McEwan
Beatrice and Virgil	Yann Martel
Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks
Black Swan Green	David Mitchell
Blindsight	Maurice Gee
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Briar Rose	Jane Yolen
Cat’s Eye	Margaret Atwood
Cloudstreet	Tim Winton
Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier
Cry The Beloved Country	Alan Paton
Emma	Jane Austen
Enduring Love	Ian McEwan
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Jonathan Sarfan Foer
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk
Fugitive Pieces	Annie Michaels
Gallagher Girls	Ally Carter
Genesis	Bernard Beckett
How To Stop a Heart From Beating	Danielle Ballantyne
In My Father’s Den	Maurice Gee
Islands of Silence	Martin Booth
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
Maestro	Peter Goldsworthy
Mr Pip	Lloyd Jones
Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolfe
No Country For Old Men	Cormac McCarthy
Once Were Warriors	Alan Duff
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey
Owls Do Cry	Janet Frame
Perfume	Patrick Suskind
Persuasion	Jane Austen
Potiki	Patricia Grace
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
Room	Emma Donoghue
Satisfied With Nothing	Ernest Hill
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
Shades of Grey	Jasper Fforde
Slaughterhouse 5	Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island	Andrea Levy
Snow Falling on Cedars	David Gutterson
Sula	Toni Morrison
Surrender	Sonya Hartnett
Talking About O’Dwyer	C K Stead
Tess of the D’Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
The Color Purple	Alice Walker
The Comfort of Strangers	Ian McEwan
The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Mitch Albom
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy
The Grass is Singing	Doris Lessing
The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
The Last Ride	Thomas Eidson
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
The Messengers	Marcus Zusak
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint	Brady Udall
The New Girl	Emily Perkins
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
The Power and the Glory	Graham Greene
The Outsider	Albert Camus
The Reader	Bernhard Schlink
The Road	Cormac McCarthy
The Shipping News	Annie Proulx
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien
The Wall	Jean Paul Satre
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
Triage	Scott Anderson
Whanau II	Witi Ihimaera
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?	Alan Duff
Wide Sargasso Sea	Jean Rhys
Wintergirls	Laurie Lalse Anderson
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte
Plays
A Doll’s House	Henrik Ibsen
Death and the Maiden	Ariel Dorfman
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
Dr Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Foreskin’s Lament	Greg McGee
King Lear	Shakespeare
Lady Windermere’s Fan	Oscar Wilde
Master Harold and the Boys	Athol Fugard
Much Ado About Nothing	Shakespeare
Ophelia Thinks Harder	Jean Betts
Othello	Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Tom Stoppard
The Crucible	Arthur Miller
The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams
The History Boys	Alan Bennett
The Kid	Michael Gow
The Laraime Project	Moises Kaufman
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?	Edward Albee
3.1 Short Texts
Poetry
Tusiata Avia
James K Baxter
William Blake
Emily Dickenson
Gerald Manly Hopkins
Kapka Kassoabova
John Keats
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Shakespearean sonnets
Hone Tuwhare
Short Stories
Ray Bradbury
Raymond Carver
Janet Frame
Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Cold Equations	Tom Godwin
Ernest Hemingway
Alex La Guma
Katherine Mansfield
Owen Marshall
The Wall	Jean Paul Satre
The Dark Room	Rachel Sieffert
Hone Tuwhare

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